[Phys-L] check your work

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

When I was in first grade, the teacher was Mrs. O'Brien. 
I liked her.  She was about four and a half feet tall 
in heels, but everybody in the school looked up to her, 
metaphorically if not literally.

She emphasized that it was important to 
check the work.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I mention this because on 07/21/2014 07:02 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> David E. Cole [....]

That's very droll, with a capital T.

If you perform even the most perfunctory check,
  https://www.google.com/search?q=%22David+E.+Cole%22
the first hit -- the very first hit -- points to
  http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/physics.asp
which discusses the "story" about repealing the laws of
physics.

I wouldn't have believed a single word of the "story"
even in the absence of the convenient snopes analysis,
but that is just a minor reinforcement of the previous
point:  How could you not check?